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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1909
Page
6
A jumbled column notes global topics from Halley’s Comet and the pole to politics and science. It comments on a planned federal appointment, Peru sending a president’s son for scientific farming, and a Wisconsin wood-testing bureau amid shifting ambitions.
Centennial celebration highlights St Louis as the pioneer city of the great west. The piece traces its 1809 incorporation, early fur trade, and transformation into a continental trade hub with river routes and steam transportation expanding toward the Pacific. It notes the broad participation of U.S. mayors and the city’s enduring legacy in western development.
The piece traces St Louis growth from Laclede’s 1704 founding to 1909 as the city expands from a 900 resident village to a midcontinental powerhouse. It contrasts keelboats of 1809 with airships and airplanes, notes population and economic booms, and highlights transfers of Louisiana territory and railroad progress shaping a continental future.
The piece notes Mexico and Italy facing major earthquake and tidal wave devastation with heavy loss of life and property. It shifts to Chicago traffic issues where proposed street “bumps” would slow speeders, suggesting severe penalties for violators as a drastic but primitive fix.
The barnacle infestation on the battleship South Dakota prompted a dry dock at Mare Island navy yard where about 600 tons of barnacles were scraped from the hull. The nuisance is noted as hindering ship speed, an issue Dickens used as a metaphor for human flaws.
A reader argues that oiling park roadways to curb dust could also ease dust on residence boulevards. The savings from reduced sprinkling costs might offset the oiling expense, improving overall street maintenance.
The recent occultation of Mars by the moon captivated astronomers but added nothing new to existing knowledge. The piece notes no figurative significance and jokes that only a Mars event causing world peace would merit an International Peace Congress at The Hague.
The state department is notified of steamship service between Acajutla Salvador and Salina Cruz Mexico at the Pacific end of the Tehuantepec railroad. Mail time from New York to Salvador drops from 15 days to 9, boosting business and showing shipping and mail improvements can increase North and South American trade.
The phono graph and automatic piano are charged with lowering public taste yet they expand access to music. They bring sound into homes that would not have experienced it otherwise and are likened to printing expanding reading. Hope for music remains.
A six year old girl Lucretia Norris at St. Josephs hospital in Omaha underwent an unusual operation. A diseased jaw section was removed and a bone fragment from a freshly killed chicken was implanted to correct a malformed jaw. The procedure aimed to remedy the congenital defect.
A weary printer recounts a Chicago fair story from the Columbian Exposition era. Two men shared a fifty cent half dollar, spent the day wandering the fair, then watched it slip from a monocled pose into the river below, a tragic end to a modest fortune.
A Cleveland Leader item recounts Eld. Daniel Isaacs seeking a bed at an inn during a ball night. Barred at first, he waits until three in the morning then shares the room with two others and an old Methodist preacher, prompting a jokey exchange.
Edward Beresford demonstrated a porphydrometer to weigh ships without lifting. A 200 ton barge showed how deeper draft raises a float in a water column, balancing a lever with a sliding weight to reveal load by scale. The device even measured a man stepping aboard the barge.
While Sergeant Henry Balsz slept in Sacramento a burglar entered and stole his gold watch from his vest pocket. The crime woke his daughter who cried out, scaring the intruder away. Balsz learned of the loss only after waking in the morning.
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